UN GATE,
September 8 – UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres on 27
March 2018lavished
praise on
Saudi Crown
Prince
Mohammed bin
Salman now accused
with respect to
Jamal Khashoggi,
accepting
a $930 million
check from the
Saudis and UAE,
with not a
word of the
Saudi led
bombing
campaign that
has killed
civilians and
caused cholera
in Yemen.
While his team
still has MOU(s) with
MBS, Guterres
conceals
others
of his
financial
links. Then
he
disappeared
for three
weeks in
August, his
public
schedules entirely blank,
following by
denying Inner
City Press access
to UNGA,
below.

On
September
8,
from the UN of
Antonio "Back
Door"
Guterres who
fled into a
side door to
his public
mansion to
avoid questions after
a luxury boat
cruise
on September
7,
this: "Members
of the
Redeployment
Coordination
Committee
(RCC) for the
implementation
of the
Hudaydah
Agreement are
holding their
sixth joint
meeting on 8
and 9
September
2019, aboard a
UN vessel in
open waters
off
Hudaydah.
Acting Chair
of the RCC
General Hany
Nakhleh is
facilitating
discussions on
technical
steps and
operational
measures aimed
to support
progress in
the
implementation
of the
Hudaydah
Agreement.
Part of the
Stockholm
Agreement
reached in
December 2018,
the Hudaydah
Agreement
foresees a
ceasefire and
the
redeployment
of forces from
the city and
ports of
Hudaydah,
Ras-Issa and
Al-Salif on
the western
coast of
Yemen.
Hudaydah, 8
September
2019
United Nations
Mission to
Support the
Hudaydah
Agreement
(UNMHA)."

On
September 1, with
Guterres still
silent and
partnering with MBS through
his Youth
Envoy and
craven UN
Correspondents
Association, here,
more
than 100
people have
reportedly
been killed in
an air strike
by the
Saudi-led
military
coalition on a
detention center
in Yemen, the
International
Committee of
the Red Cross
said Sunday.
The ICRC
rushed to the
scene in the
city of Dhamar
with medical
teams and
hundreds of
body bags.
"The location
that was hit
has been
visited by
ICRC before,"
Rauchenstein
said. We'll
have more on
this - and
this:

Past 4 pm on
Friday, August
30 the UN
issued a
denial of
accreditation
with no
reasoning
other than
that
accreditation
had previously
been revoked:

Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City
Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018."

This is
Kafka-esque,
and corrupt.
We will have
more, much
more, on this.

On August
3 the US
through State
Department Spokesperson
Morgan Ortagus
issued
a statement on
Aden. A
full six
days after,
after giving a
UN post to an
official of
the UAE
which has helped
starve Yemenis, the
missing Guterres
through his
censoring
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
issued a
canned statement,
while refusing
all Press
questions. Now
on August 10
from MSF,
this: "Since
Thursday
evening,
Yemen’s port
city of Aden
has been
gripped by
intense
fighting
between
opposing armed
groups. In
less than 24
hours, Doctors
Without
Borders/Médecins
Sans
Frontières
(MSF) treated
119 people in
its hospital
and the
wounded
continue to
pour in. The
airport is
closed, and
life in the
city has
ground to a
halt.
"Most of the
wounded are
civilians
trapped by the
fighting and
probably
victims of
mortar fire or
stray
bullets," said
Caroline
Seguin, MSF’s
head of
programs in
Yemen.
"Yesterday we
treated a
woman who had
a bullet wound
and she was
eight months
pregnant. At
least five
people were
dead on
arrival at the
hospital, one
of them a
child."
Sixty-two of
the people
treated by MSF
required
emergency
inpatient
care.
"The city’s a
battlefield.
We can hear
the sound of
heavy weapon
fire and tanks
are moving
around the
streets,"
Seguin said.
“Our hospital
is stretched
to the limit.
Our teams are
working around
the clock to
take care of
the many
people wounded
by the
fighting, and
we can’t get
anyone in to
replace them.
The city’s
paralyzed and
some personnel
aren’t able to
get to the
hospital
because the
fighting’s
really fierce
and the roads
into the city
are cut off.
Given all of
this, we’re
worried we
won’t be able
to get
supplies
through to the
hospital."
The fighting
also threatens
the port of
Aden, the only
fully
functional
port in the
country,
through which
imported goods
and some
humanitarian
aid—including
MSF’s
supplies—are
brought into
Yemen.
"If the
situation
continues to
deteriorate .
. . there’s
also a risk of
prices being
impacted and,
consequently,
people’s
access to
basic
essentials
when there’s
already
inflation,"
said Seguin." And
Guterres is
missing -
deeply
concerned, of
course.

On
July 15 the
UN
issued a statement
without the
name of
Michael
Lollesgaard.
It's not
suprising - he
is leaving to
become Danish
Army chief of
staff, the UN
once again
used without
accomplishing
anything, its
abuses
included
disgusting
sexual abuse
covered up
by journalist
engaged in the
same. We'll
have more on
this. - and
on this
byline: "UN
vessel, Red
Sea, 15 July
2019." The UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric,
while banning
Inner City
Press from any
entry
of the UN for
the 377th day,
is off
on vacation
for the rest
of July. We'll have
more on this.

On
July 10 in a
noon briefing
the UN banned
Inner City
Press from
attending,
Deputy
Spokesman
Farhan Haq
declined to
give a read
out of UK/UN
envoy
Martin
Griffiths
meeting with
US Secretary
of State Mike
Pompeo. Later
State
Department
spokesperson
Morgan Ortagus
issued this: "Secretary
of State
Michael R.
Pompeo met
today with UN
Special Envoy
of the
Secretary-General
for Yemen
Martin
Griffiths. The
Secretary
thanked the
Special Envoy
for his
continued
efforts to
move the
political
process
forward. The
Secretary and
the Special
Envoy
discussed the
latest
developments
on the UN-led
political
track. The
Secretary
expressed
concern over
the recent
increase in
Iranian-supported
Houthi attacks
into Saudi
territory that
exacerbate the
conflict and
deepen
mistrust. The
Secretary and
the Special
Envoy agreed
that parties
must continue
working toward
a political
settlement and
an end to the
conflict in
Yemen."

On
June 20,
this from US
Senator Bernie
Sanders as he
voted in
support of
joint
resolutions seeking
to block
the transfer
of $8 billion
in weapons to
Saudi Arabia
and other
states: "The
Trump
administration’s
attempt to do
an end-run
around
Congressional
disapproval in
order to
transfer
weapons to the
Saudi and
Emirati
regimes is a
violation of
the law, and
an affront to
the
Constitutional
order.
“Repeatedly,
we see this
president
using phony
‘emergency’
declarations
to sidestep
the law to get
what he wants.
The fact that
he is
transferring
these weapons
at a time when
the Saudis and
Emiratis are
waging a
catastrophic
war in Yemen,
a war that a
bipartisan
majority in
Congress has
declared to be
unauthorized
and illegal,
is even more
outrageous.
“It’s time for
the president
to respect the
will of a
convincing
majority of
the Senate and
follow the
law. I will do
everything I
can to assert
Congress’s
power over the
purse to end
the war in
Yemen and
block these
weapons from
being used by
the Saudis in
that war.
Trump should
not do the
bidding of the
repressive,
undemocratic
regime of
Saudi Arabia,
which was
exposed this
week by the
United Nations
for the
premeditated
killing of
dissident
journalist
Jamal
Khashoggi and
the coverup of
that crime.”
Well, it was
exposed by an
independent
expert affiated
with but not
representing
the UN. The
head of the
UN, Antonio
Guterres, is
totally
down with MBS, as
with Paul
Biya of
Cameroon.

Consider
this on
May 26 from
UNICEF's Henrietta Fore who
has refused
to make even
the UN's minimal
public
financial
disclosure:
"Seven
children
between the
ages of 4 and
14 were killed
on Friday in
an attack on
the Mawiyah
district, in
the southern
Yemeni city of
Taiz.
“This attack
brings to 27
the number of
children
killed and
injured in a
recent
escalation of
violence near
Sanaa and in
Taiz over the
past 10 days.
These are only
the numbers
that the
United Nations
has been able
to confirm;
actual numbers
are likely to
be even
higher.
“Nowhere is
safe for
children in
Yemen. The
conflict is
haunting them
in their
homes, schools
and
playgrounds.
“We, once
again, urge
all warring
parties in
Yemen and
those who have
influence over
them to
protect
children at
all times and
keep them out
of harm’s way.
Attacks on
civilian
infrastructure
must stop and
calls for
peace in Yemen
must be
heeded.” How can
an American UN
official
refuse financial
disclosure?
A fish rots
from the head.

Similarly,
exiled
puppet
"president"
Hadi is saying
he won't deal
with middle of
the road UN envoy
Griffiths
unless
Guterres gives
him, like MBS,
assurances.
What has led
to such
perceived weakness
of Guterres
that even Hadi
can do
this? Well,
not only did
Guterres
accept the
PNG-ing of his envoy to
Somalia
- he then
threw the envoy
Nicholas
Haysom under
the bus,
telling staff
Haysom
was "impolite"
to sign a
letter about
human rights
to the Somali
government.

Inner
City Press exclusivelypublishes
audio of this,here,
videohere, because UN
staff
disgusted by
Guterres' sell
out of human
rights and of
themare exclusively
providing
information to
Inner City
Press, which
Guterres had
roughed up and
banned now for 325days
and counting.

Given
that
development,
leaders even
more propped
up than Hadi
will do the
same. Guterres
is killing
what remains
of the UN's credibility.
#DumpGuterresToTryToSaveTheUN.

Back
on May 15 for
the UNSC's
Yemen meeting
NRC's Mohamed
Abdi “As
the UN
Security
Council meets
today to
discuss the
situation in
Yemen,
governments
funding and
supporting
this war must
maintain
pressure on
conflict
parties to
fully
implement the
Stockholm
agreement,
including
deployment of
all monitors
needed to
oversee the
ceasefire.
While we
welcome fresh
talks between
the government
of Yemen and
Ansar Allah on
sharing port
revenues and
paying public
workers,
conflict rages
on in many
parts of the
country. In Al
Dahle
civilians
remain trapped
by the clashes
unable to flee
to safety, the
main road
supplying food
from Aden in
the South to
the capital
Sana’a remains
cut off by the
fighting.
Civilians in
Taiz live
under the
daily threat
of sniper
fire. In
Hajjah,
fighting
threatens to
cut of the
city’s main
water supply
and access to
the public
hospital, and
heavy air
strikes
continue to
displace
families...”
Guterres is on
a junket to
Fiji, with his
MOUs with
MBS in place,
corrupt. On
17
April
2019,
the UN
Security
Council put
out a Press
Statement. But
what success
could the UN
have, when its
Secretary
General
continues to
have a
memorandum of
understanding
with MBS, and
refuses to
answer any
questions
about it,
preferring to
extend his
Saudi-like ban
on the Press that
asks? See here.

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